Towards the ideal of ethics and collective responsibility: Reflections on cooperation and social capital between theory and utopia.
The article introduces a contribution to the theoretical reflections about the concepts of ethics and responsibility. The treatment crosses the concepts and it deal with them having recourse to definitions proposed in social psychology, philosophy, and economy. Specifically, our concern is addressed to the related themes which, in latest years, have been linked to ethics and responsibility: trust, social capital, cooperation and competition: Which are implications of reciprocal behaviors? Which processes does reciprocity feed, and which implications towards a collective responsibility? How could scholars define and study collective responsibility beyond risks of disengagement? The whole account plays between theoretical frames and real life contexts and between individual aspects and collective dimensions of processes and matters at issue. Theoretical proposals are discussed by means of organizational world and real life contexts in order to make our reader - reflexively and actively - actor of his own future, which is already here
